Xi was visiting the U.K. for a four-day state visit when Cameron took him to the Plough at Cadsden pub in Buckinghamshire, in southeast England. There the pair enjoyed traditional British food and drink and exchanged stories, including one about Cameron accidentally leaving his eight-year-old daughter behind in the pub in 2012, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported at the time.

The pub subsequently became a hotspot for Chinese tourists, according to the Morning Advertiser, a weekly trade publication focused on the pub industry. On the Plough at Cadsden’s website, it is described as “the pub of choice of Prime Ministers for many decades” and “probably the most famous pub in England.”

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Now the Plough has reportedly been sold to the Chinese group SinoFortone Investment in a sale brokered by specialist property advisor Christie & Co teams based in London and Asia. Terms of the deal, including the value of the purchase, have not been disclosed, but it is believed that the previous owner will continue to run the pub.

“We are really pleased to have completed the sale of the Plough to SinoFortone Investment,” Christie & Co director Neil Morgan said, according to the Morning Advertiser. “The Chinese market has huge potential and many opportunities, so it is one we will see more activity in over the coming months and years.”

President-elect Donald Trump reacted with a simple announcement on Twitter on Saturday morning. “Fidel Castro is dead!” he said. President Barack Obama has not yet publicly commented on Castro’s death, which was announced late Friday by Castro’s brother, Cuban President Raul Castro.

“Free and independent Cuba, which he (Fidel Castro) and his allies built, became an influential member of the international community and became an inspiring example for many countries and nations,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a telegram to Raul Castro, according to the Associated Press. “Fidel Castro was a sincere and reliable friend of Russia.”

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said on Twitter: “Fidel Castro was a friend of Mexico, promoting bilateral relations based on respect, dialogue and solidarity,” according to an AP translation.

“Fidel Castro was one of the most iconic personalities of the 20th century. India mourns the loss of a great friend,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Twitter. “I extend my deepest condolences to the Government & people of Cuba on the sad demise of Fidel Castro. May his soul rest in peace.”

Fidel Castro was one of the most iconic personalities of the 20th century. India mourns the loss of a great friend.

Pope Francis sent a telegram to Raul Castro offering “my sense of grief to your excellency and family” and signed it himself, the AP reported.

“Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement, calling him a “legendary revolutionary and orator.” “While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for ‘el Comandante.’”

In a message read on state broadcaster CCTV, Chinese President Xi Jinping praised Fidel Castro’s “immortal historical contributions to the development of socialism around the world,” the AP reported.

“With his death, the Chinese people have lost a close comrade and a sincere friend. His glorious image and great achievements will be recorded in history forever,” Jinping said.

U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called Fidel Castro a “huge figure in our lives,” according to the BBC.

“For all his flaws, Castro’s support for Angola played a crucial role in bringing an end to apartheid in South Africa and he will be remembered both as an internationalist and a champion of social justice,” Corbyn said.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called him a “historic, if controversial figure,” the BBC reported. He said Fidel Castro’s death marked “the end of an era for Cuba and the start of a new one for Cuba’s people.”

On Last Foreign Tour, Obama Must Find a Way to Explain Trump

It was supposed to be his grand valedictory tour. Now President Barack Obama must use his last major trip abroad to try to calm shocked world leaders about the outcome of the U.S. election, and what comes next when Donald Trump is president.

Trump’s unforeseen victory has triggered pangs of uncertainty at home and grave concerns around the world. Though Obama has urged unity and said the U.S. must root for Trump’s success, his trip to Greece, Germany, and Peru forces him to confront global concerns about the future of America’s leadership.

“In some ways, there’s nothing to say,” said Heather Conley, a Europe scholar at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Conley said Obama’s trip, planned when it seemed certain Hillary Clinton would win, had been designed to reassure the world that the U.S. had regained its footing after a toxic campaign that unnerved foreign capitals. “Now the president has the unenviable task of telling his counterparts and explaining what Europeans are now coining ‘the Trump effect,'” Conley said.

For months, Obama lent credence to those concerns as he urged Americans to reject Trump. Standing alongside Singapore’s prime minister in August, Obama said Trump was “woefully unprepared” because he lacked “basic knowledge” about critical issues in Europe, Asia and the Mideast. And during a visit to Japan, Obama said he wasn’t the only world leader worried about Trump.

“They’re rattled by him, and for good reason,” Obama said in May. “Because a lot of the proposals that he’s made display either ignorance of world affairs, or a cavalier attitude, or an interest in getting tweets and headlines instead of actually thinking through what it is that is required to keep America safe and secure and prosperous, and what’s required to keep the world on an even keel.”

Now, Obama must pivot and reassure the U.S. and other countries that somehow, it will all be OK.

Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, said the president fully expects Trump’s election to be a dominant theme of the trip, but would emphasize his plans to keep carrying out his approach until Trump takes over. He said Obama would argue that basic U.S. principles like honoring treaty commitments have historically survived even the most dramatic changes of administrations.

“He’ll want to use these conversations with leaders to express that view that given all the important issues that we face, no matter what our preferred choice may have been in the election, right now we as Americans have a stake in seeing this next administration succeed,” Rhodes said.

Obama departs Monday on the six-day trip, stopping first in Athens, where he’ll tour the Parthenon, meet with the prime minister, and give a speech about democracy and globalization that will take on new relevance in light of Trump’s election. He’ll use his visit to Berlin to show gratitude to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, his closest foreign partner, and to meet with key European leaders.

In Peru, he’ll attend a major Asian economic summit in Lima, and also meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Australian Prime Minster Malcolm Turnbull.

For the most part, foreign leaders have politely if cautiously congratulated Trump on his victory, in public statements and phone calls.

Conversely, Trump’s “America first” motto has resonated deeply with nationalists and skeptics of globalization who see Trump as a kindred spirit. After all, it was Trump who dubbed himself “Mr. Brexit” after the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union.

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America’s Mideast allies are unsure what Trump’s victory means for the nuclear deal with Iran, a foe of U.S. partners Saudi Arabia and Israel, considering Trump’s repeated but vague pledges to renegotiate that deal. And misgivings about Trump will certainly follow Obama to Latin America, where Trump has turned off many with his hard-line immigration stance and description of Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists.

Asian leaders who painstakingly negotiated a landmark free trade deal with the U.S. are swallowing the reality that Congress will not approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership any time soon. Obama planned to meet with TPP country leaders Peru, but the White House acknowledged the deal is all but dead because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has ruled out a vote on it before Trump takes office.

Trump is vehemently opposed to TPP and similar deals. That could benefit China, which is eager to fill any void in regional leadership left by a U.S. and has its own competing free trade scheme. Yet Beijing has reason to be wary, too: Trump has threatened a trade war with China and vowed to go after the Asian powerhouse for what he deems currency manipulation.

Why PGA Tour’s Pitch to China Is Such a Challenge

It’s easy for business leaders to forget that they’ve got more to worry about than advancing technology, regulation, the election, and the war for talent. There’s still China. Though it’s growing slower than it used to be and slower than the official statistics say, it’s still growing faster than most economies and way faster than any economy near its size.

So yes, you still have to be there, and it still isn’t easy. That’s one reason I recommend you read this new article, published this morning, by Fortune’s Scott Cendrowski. It’s called “How the PGA Tour Sells Golf to China,” and it’s a valuable tale for any organization facing massive opportunities and challenges in the world’s No. 2 economy.

As Scott shows, “In terms of golf’s potential, the PGA’s timing in China couldn’t have been better; in terms of the country’s politics, it couldn’t have been worse.” Golf in the U.S. is declining, with the number of courses shrinking every year. China is the obvious potential savior, with a fast-growing middle class that could get hooked on the prestige of playing and watching a sport that for now is restricted to China’s richest people. The process is underway. “

Already, golf teachers have flocked here from Europe and the U.S., charging $600 a lesson, and driving ranges are crowded with first-time players,” Scott reports. This is not an abstract topic for Scott, an ace golfer who lives in Beijing and plays the country’s courses.

The PGA Tour’s goal is to build a tournament schedule that attracts foreign as well as Chinese golfers and that develops Chinese golfers into world-class competitors who play at the highest levels in Europe and the U.S. as well as in China. Such golfers are on the horizon. You’ll meet 19-year-old Marty Dou, who finished higher than PGA Tour stars Adam Scott and Hideki Matsuyama at a tournament in Shanghai last year.

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But there’s a big problem: Chinese president Xi Jinping has been waging war on golf as part of his anti-corruption campaign; memberships in expensive private golf clubs have been a favorite form of graft for top officials. Officially, the government has softened its anti-golf stance and has declared golf an approved middle-class sport, but unenthusiastically. As Scott notes, “In the five-year plan, it was listed between table tennis and billiards.”

In short, the PGA Tour is confronting many of the issues facing every business enthralled by imagining what would happen “if only 2% of the Chinese population bought our product….” You’ll not only be entertained by Scott’s skillful telling of this story, you’ll also get a useful new perspective on issues you’re dealing with or will be.

Climate Deal Comes One Step Closer to Reality at United Nations

(Reuters) – An agreement to fight global warming came one step closer to taking effect on Wednesday when dozens of countries deposited their ratification of the deal at the United Nations, taking the total to 60, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.

The deal, agreed by nearly 200 countries in Paris last December, needs ratification by at least 55 countries representing 55% of global carbon dioxide emissions to take effect. Ban said the 60 countries represented more than 47.5%.

The United Nations said 14 countries, representing 12.58% of emissions, have committed to joining the agreement in 2016, which would allow the threshold of 55% of global carbon dioxide emissions to be reached.

“What once seemed impossible is now inevitable. I’m confident that by the time I leave office the Paris agreement will have entered into force,” Ban, whose second five-year term ends on Dec. 31, told an event on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly.

The binding global deal would slash greenhouse gases, keeping global temperature increases to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius. Scientists warn that countries are likely to cross that threshold if they don’t take more drastic actions.

The Paris agreement received a boost earlier this month after U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping submitted their plan to join the agreement. The world’s two biggest emitters account for around 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

The European Union, whose members have not yet ratified the Paris Agreement, is aiming to formally join the pact by the end of the year, said EU Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Canete.

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This will require approval from each of the 29 member states, which collectively rank behind China and the United States as the third biggest greenhouse gas emitter.

“Yes, it will be complex. But yes we will get it done,” the commissioner said.

Each country will reduce their greenhouse gas emissions according to their own national strategies.

Paula Caballero, global director of the climate program at the World Resources Institute, said the fact that the agreement would likely enter into force this year “took everyone by surprise.”

“This rapid pace reflects a spirit of cooperation rarely seen on a global scale,” Caballero said in a statement.

With ratification on the horizon, the representative for small island states that face the most direct threat from climate change, said he would redouble efforts to bring the number over the line.

“This is a very encouraging start, but we call on all countries to join the Paris Agreement as soon as possible. Climate change is a truly international problem and solving it requires all of us to do our part,” said Mohamed Asim, foreign minister of the Maldives on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States.

Xi Jinping Says He Hopes Australia Can Be ‘Fair’ to Foreign Investors

China hopes Australia can provide a fair and transparent environment for foreign investors, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday, as he met Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for the first time since Canberra blocked a major deal.

Australia angered China last month after Turnbull’s government stopped the A$10 billion ($7.57 billion) sale of the country’s biggest energy grid to Chinese bidders after they failed to overcome security concerns.

After a meeting on the sidelines of a G20 summit in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, Xi said China “hopes the Australian side continues to dedicate itself to providing foreign investors a fair, transparent and predictable policy environment.”

The decision has caused a rift between Australia and its biggest trading partner. China has accused Australia of bowing to protectionist sentiment in blocking the bid for Ausgrid, as well as an earlier one by a China-led consortium to buy cattle company Kidman & Co.

Speaking to reporters later, Turnbull said China understood as well if not better than anyone else that it was Australia’s sovereign right to determine who invests there and the terms in which they invest.

“China has more freedom to invest in Australia, indeed all foreigners have more freedom to invest in Australia, than in almost any other country. We have a very open foreign investment policy,” Turnbull said.

“So we mostly say yes, we almost invariably say yes, but from time to time we say no and we make no bones about that and China respects that.”

He added that the Ausgrid case was not specifically mentioned in the meeting.

Australia, a staunch U.S. ally, has also drawn criticism from China for running surveillance flights over disputed islands in the South China Sea, and supporting U.S. freedom of navigation exercises there.

Xi said China and Australia should respect each other’s “choices in their development paths and each other’s core interests and major interests,” the foreign ministry added.

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Turnbull said he discussed the South China Sea with Xi, and the importance of complying with international law.

“We’re a good friend of China and good friends are very honest with each other,” he added.

“We are consistent and our position is very clear that we expect and encourage all parties to comply with the rule of law, to show restraint and not act in a way that would exacerbate or create tensions.”

Vladimir Putin’s China Visit Put His Weakness on Full Display

Ever since Sino-Russian ties began to warm up a few years ago, observers have been wondering how Russia would get used to its junior status in this unequal partnership.

With his fifth visit to Beijing on June 25, which lasted less than 24 hours, Russian President Vladimir Putin has finally given us some clues.

Circumstances have changed for both nations since Putin’s last visit to China two years ago. The Chinese economy has been caught in a stubborn downward spiral and Beijing has been putting out fires lately, such as a stock market crash and large-scale capital flight. Russia has fared even worse. The collapse of oil prices and Western sanctions have plunged the Russian economy into a death spiral. The ruble lost more than half of its value in the last two years. Russia’s GDP shrank 3.4% last year and is expected to contract further this year. So, China may not be doing too well, but Russia is in far worse shape.

It is thus an uncommon—but unsurprising—sight to see Putin, the swaggering strongman, perform the rituals of a clear supplicant to his senior partner, the Chinese President Xi Jinping.

To be sure, Russia has billed Putin’s visit as a huge success and touted the nearly 30 commercial deals signed between various Chinese and Russian entities as evidence of a mutually beneficial partnership. But a close examination of these deals and, more importantly, the three joint communiqués signed by Putin and Xi, reveals that it is China that is in the driver’s seat in the emerging Sino-Russian strategic partnership.

Cash-strapped Russia needs Chinese investments and has to sell technology it used to withhold from its powerful neighbor (and potential threat). Among the more notable deals signed during Putin’s visit was the purchase of a 40% stake by ChinaChem, China’s largest state-owned chemical company, in a petrochemical complex owned by Rosnef, Russia’s state-owned oil giant. Another eye-catching agreement was the sale of Russia’s advanced space rocket engine, RD-180, to China.

Putin gave away even more to please China in the language of the three Sino-Russian joint communiqués. On the surface, the three joint communiqués—one on the visit itself, one on cyberspace, and another on global strategic stability—clearly show the common interests shared by Russia and China in opposing recent American policies. For instance, in the communiqué on global strategic stability, both Putin and Xi denounced the U.S., albeit without naming it explicitly, for its intent on “deploying force or the threat of force to pursue its interests without any obstruction.” They singled out planned American deployment of anti-missile systems in Northeast Asia and Eastern Europe as harmful to Chinese and Russian national security interests. They also mentioned the proposed Global Prompt Strike, currently under development by the Pentagon, as a weapon system that will change the strategic balance and trigger a new arms race.

A close reading of the communiqués on cyberspace and the visit itself belies Putin’s junior status in his partnership with Xi.

On cyberspace, Russia, which has maintained much looser control of the internet than China, formally embraced the position long advocated by China, where the ruling Chinese Communist Party has been obsessed with the threat posed by the information revolution to its survival. According to the joint communiqué, Russia and China call for the “respect for the national sovereignty in the cyberspace … and oppose the interference of other countries’ internal affairs through the cyberspace.” This text could have been lifted from the mission statement of China’s internet censors.

Even more remarkable was Russia’s unequal trade with China on the South China Sea dispute and the conflict in Ukraine. On the South China Sea, Putin has finally embraced a key Chinese position, opposing “internationalization” of the dispute and external interference (a veiled reference to the U.S.). But what did he get in return? On Ukraine, the communiqué only stated that both China and Russia do not believe there is a military solution and any political and diplomatic solution must be based on the new Minsk ceasefire agreement signed in February 2015.

Beggars cannot be choosers, and a Putin besieged by both domestic economic woes and international isolation likely has no choice but to double-down on his bet on China. Of course, Russia’s strongman may have to kowtow to his newfound Chinese friend. But if such a gesture could gain him some extra space for survival, it is worth it, particularly when one considers his lack of alternatives.

Minxin Pei is the Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College and a non-resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States

Russia and China sealed a raft of energy deals during President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing on Saturday, strengthening economic ties while pledging to preserve the strategic balance of power among nations.

The deals involve the sale of stakes in a number of Russian projects to Chinese firms, an oil supply contract and joint investments in petrochemical projects in Russia.

Rosneft, Russia’s top oil producer, agreed with China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) that ChemChina would take a 40% stake in Rosneft’s planned petrochemical complex VNHK in Russia’s Far East.

The deal will help Rosneft finance the project and get access to the markets of the Asia-Pacific region, the Russian firm said in a statement.

They also signed a new one-year contract under which Rosneft could supply up to 2.4 million tons of crude oil to ChemChina between Aug. 1, 2016, and July 31, 2017.

Rosneft and Beijing Enterprises Group Company Limited agreed the key terms of a potential sale of a 20% stake in Rosneft’s oil producing subsidiary Verkhnechonskneftegaz to a unit of Beijing Gas Group.

The Russian firm also signed a framework agreement with Sinopec regarding the construction of a gas processing and petrochemical plant in East Siberia, aiming to set up a joint venture in 2017 focused on the Russian and Chinese markets.

Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin said his company did not plan to reduce its crude supplies to China and would defend its market position amid competition with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, and Iran.

“We will stick to the volumes we have agreed on. It’s around 40 million tons (per year),” TASS news agency quoted Sechin as saying.

Russia was China’s largest crude oil supplier in May for a third month in a row, having surpassed imports from Saudi Arabia.

Although economic cooperation was the focus at Putin’s talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the leaders also agreed to strengthen global strategic stability.

A statement on the Kremlin website from the two governments called on nations to strictly abide by the norms of international law, keep military capabilities at the minimum level required for national security and refrain from steps aimed at expanding existing military-political alliances.

The statement criticized the deployment of anti-missile systems in Europe and Asia, saying those who deploy them often acted under false pretenses.

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Although it did not mention specific countries, it comes at a time that Russia and NATO are at loggerheads over the western alliance’s build up of capabilities in eastern Europe, including missile defense. NATO says its actions are a necessary response to Russia’s intervention in Ukraine.

The countries’ central banks also signed a memorandum of understanding on setting up a yuan clearing mechanism in Russia that they said would be beneficial to cross-border trade and investment.

Xi Jinping Says China Should Invest More In the Elderly

China should increase investment in care for the elderly, President Xi Jinping told a meeting of the country’s top leaders on its aging population, official Xinhua news agency reported.

“Our policies measures, work base, institutional mechanisms, and so forth are still deficient leading to a fairly large gap with the hope of the elderly to enjoy happiness later in life,” it quoted Xi as saying on Friday.

For the first time in decades China’s working age population fell in 2012 and the world’s most populous nation could be the first country in the world to get old before it gets rich.

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China’s population is set to peak at about 1.45 billion by 2050 when one in every three people is expected to be more than 60 years old, with a shrinking proportion of working adults to support them.

With the world’s largest elderly population and the fastest aging population, facing the problems was an “important responsibility,” Xi told the Communist Party’s powerful Politburo.

“Meeting the various needs of the huge elderly population and properly solving the social problems that an aging population brings are matters relating to the overall development of the country and welfare of the people,” Xinhua quoted Xi as saying.

Here’s How the Chinese Government Really Manipulates Social Media

The Chinese government is responsible for almost half a billion fabricated social media posts each year, Harvard researchers have estimated—while suggesting that the evidence contradicts conventional wisdom about the purpose of this program.

The researchers—Gary King, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret Roberts—on Thursday published what they said was the first empirical analysis of how Chinese authorities manipulate social media for propaganda purposes.

According to them, the main purpose of these posts, published on popular platforms such as Sina Weibo, is not to argue with critics of the Communist regime or local officials, but rather to distract people from controversial topics.

It’s long been known that hundreds of thousands of people in an organization known as the “50c Party” regularly churn out bogus posts—the name is a reference to their rumored payments per post. This so-called astroturfing operation is the flip side to China’s censorship regime, where criticism of leaders and their policies is allowed, but censors stamp out any moves toward collective action.

The Harvard researchers based their findings on analysis of leaked emails from the “Internet Propaganda Office of Zhanggong, a district of Ganzhou City in Jiangxi province,” which closely detailed local 50c Party activities. Extrapolating from what they found in that hacked cache, the researchers estimated that the government’s overall astroturfing operations churn out around 488 million posts each year.

Importantly, they found no examples of 50c posts in the leaked cache that taunted foreign countries or argued with others, as many assume these posts do.

They wrote:

Our results indicate that the prevailing view of the 50c Party is largely incorrect. We show that almost none of the Chinese government’s 50c Party posts engage in debate and argument of any kind. They do not step up to defend the government, its leaders, and their policies from criticism, no matter how vitriolic; indeed, they seem to avoid controversial issues entirely. Instead, most of these posts are about cheerleading and positive discussions…a strategy designed to actively distract and redirect public attention from ongoing criticism, other grievances, or collective action.

For example, following the Shanshan riots of mid-2013, the 50c Party crafted hundreds of posts about Xi Jinping’s “China Dream” ideals and local economic development.

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“Distraction is a clever strategy in information control in that an argument in almost any human discussion is rarely an effective way to put an end to an opposing argument,” the researchers wrote. “Letting an argument die, or changing the subject, usually works much better than picking an argument and getting someone’s back up.”